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The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

270 mentions on Hacker News by 202 people: 37 stories, 233 comments · first 2018-03-30 · latest 2026-10-22

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  1. Yeah, for now it is JSON only. Here is the issue, tracking the work on the Settings UI: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1564
    comment by DedlySnek · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  2. …Terminal has a hard requirement on features only found in the latest versions of windows. See: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3843#issuecomme...
    comment by Hawxy · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  3. …] }, { "command": "paste", "keys": [ "ctrl+v" ] } ] Please raise your opinions in this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/968
    comment by aliswe · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  4. …title name. There is a github issue, but it does not look like they take this feature seriously: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1079 Edit: I am happy with it - they've been improving it constantly (for the last 4 months at…
    comment by EastSmith · 2020-03-18 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
  5. …critical UX features. Not a great situation. https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/issues/639 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/879
    comment by ripley12 · 2020-03-04 · in PowerShell 7.0
  6. Have you given Windows Terminal a try? It's in the store. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by garethrowlands · 2020-03-02 · in Little known features of iTerm2
  7. …issues in the github repo because, yes, Windows Terminal and Console are open-source! Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by bitcrazed · 2020-02-26 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  8. There's also this: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/143 (Weird slowness scolling text in the console ) """ It's caused by conhost.exe excessively hammering the registry to query the following two values:…
  9. …is something visible in our public source, so you don't need to take my comment at face value. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by DHowett · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  10. https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal/blob/master/src/termin... https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/src/termin... See also the corresponding hpp files.
    comment by ddevault · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  11. …//gist.github.com/XVilka/a0e49e1c65370ba11c17 [2] https://terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org/bidi/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/538
    comment by xvilka · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  12. …it only blanks the visible viewport, and you can still scroll back through all the old stuff. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1305 There's a lot of information here that's over my head about how this actually isn't a bug, and…
    comment by recursive · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  13. They just started working on this https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/376 I don't think it'll make it for 1.0 as they are doing a new feature freeze.
    comment by zamadatix · 2020-02-14 · in Windows Terminal Preview 0.9
  14. And Vim is still not usable unfortunately: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1203
    comment by rootlocus · 2020-01-15 · in Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release
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    Microsoft’s Windows Terminal is getting retro-style CRT effects, search and more
    story by ToFab123 · 2020-01-10 · 0 comments
  16. this one https://github.com/microsoft/terminal 30 seconds or so
  17. …it yourself and install it on your own EDIT: you can download built packages from the Releases tab https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases
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    Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)
    story by hnbreak · 2019-12-23 · 117 comments
  19. …pport.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-... [4] https://microsoft.com/download/visual-c [5] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1386#issuecomme...
    comment by svnpenn · 2019-10-25 · in Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
  20. The new terminal is quite good. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  21. …interesting, if still in prerelease. (also, there's a trailer for it on YouTube - so weird [2]) 0: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal 1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal-preview/9... 2:…
    comment by DuskStar · 2019-10-01 · in PuTTY 0.73
  22. I haven't tried it myself, but there's the new Windows Terminal if you aren't aware of it. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by dguo · 2019-08-01 · in iTerm2 3.3
  23. …by then, you potentially have the lag time most terminal users want to bypass. For windows, maybe https://github.com/microsoft/terminal will encourage more terminal innovation by bsd/linux -> windows crossovers. On Linux, try this:…
    comment by git-pull · 2019-07-21 · in Ask HN: How can we improve TUIs?
  24. https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal
    comment by figgis · 2019-07-01 · in Microsoft's Linux Kernel
  25. …to support assistive technology very soon. To follow progress please follow this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/634 ABOUT WINDOWS TERMINAL The Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and…
  26. Their Github page lists only one download link to the Windows Store but you could build it too https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by hbcondo714 · 2019-06-23 · in Windows Terminal (Preview)
  27. The new Windows Terminal is looking very nice so far: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal You still have to build it from source in VS 2017 or 2019, and there are a few rough edges (currently only middle click for copy/paste), but it's a…
    comment by mikepurvis · 2019-06-17 · in The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
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    Terminal – The New Windows Terminal
    story by stockkid · 2019-05-30 · 12 comments
  29. You won't need any third party ones on Windows soon enough. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  30. ….readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstar... [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28macOS%29 [12] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  31. ▲ 1
    A quest for real terminal – Microsoft is reliving the history
    story by rodmena · 2019-05-13 · 0 comments
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    Windows Terminal
    story by radricDavis · 2019-05-09 · 1 comment
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    The new Windows Terminal, and the original Windows console host
    story by nlusskin · 2019-05-08 · 0 comments
  34. …Granted, conhost will stay for compatibility reasons and this is a new thing. But it's open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal . And according to the readme contains the source for conhost.exe too.
    comment by rndgermandude · 2019-05-08 · in Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
  35. As someone else replied, yes it does actually answer the question: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal/blob/master/src/termin...
    comment by mynameisvlad · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
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    The new Windows Terminal, and the original Windows console host
    story by xparadigm · 2019-05-07 · 2 comments
  37. …Terminal was just released yesterday, which might be a good option for you. It's even open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by timdorr · 2019-05-07 · in Hyper 3.0.0
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    The New Windows Terminal
    story by ____Sash---701_ · 2019-05-07 · 0 comments
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    Microsoft/Terminal: The New Windows Terminal
    story by l2dy · 2019-05-07 · 0 comments
  40. Of course: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal/blob/master/src/termin...
    comment by GrayShade · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  41. …recent years, in both software AND hardware. Also, I don't recall macOS terminal being open source. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by johnnyballgame · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  42. And here is MIT-licensed source code for it https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
    comment by chokolad · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  43. From a quick search on the repository, the answer seems to be yes, it does support reflow: https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&...
    comment by strmpnk · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
  44. It's open source, go find out yourself rather than guessing. https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by mynameisvlad · 2019-05-07 · in Introducing Windows Terminal
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    New Terminal Emulator from Microsoft
    story by trzeci · 2019-05-06 · 0 comments
  46. The public repo is here https://github.com/microsoft/terminal for those who want to try
    comment by mtw · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  47. It IS open source! https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal Split panes is one of the things I want to see get done next personally!
    comment by zadjii · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  48. The terminal appears to be here, btw: https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
    comment by pizza · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  49. The big annouce I mentioned above is that the source code is available open-source, at https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal If you'd like to skip ahead before real previews are available, you could always compile from source :)
    comment by zadjii · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal
  50. …all the time, but I certainly haven't heard this version before. Feel free to file it over at https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal , and we'll triage as appropriate
    comment by zadjii · 2019-05-06 · in Windows gets a new terminal